Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Relay Teams Run Against Time...
...relay team will be made up of forerunners, each man to cover the 220 distance. The teams will run against time and the first three teams will receive 5, 4, 1-2, and 4 points respectively. In the other events the first four places will count 5, 3, 2, and 1 in points and gold, silver, and bronze medals will be awarded those who win places. The team which scores the greatest number of points will receive the Harvard Cup which goes into the permanent possession of the team which first Wins it five times...
...meet consists of only nine events including a relay race, and no competitor, is allowed to enter more than two and the relay. The mile run, discus, javelin, and shot as well as the regular hurdle event are omitted from the program. A 120 yard low hurdle race has been substituted for the more severe collegiate events...
...mile relay race never has been included in the intercollegiate championships, but if I had an opportunity to choose an all-time one-mile relay team, picking the men on the basis of speed, experience, and reliability, I would choose the four men in this order: J. E. Meredith of Pennsylvania. Maxey W. Long of Columbia, Frank J. Shea of Pittsburgh and Charles D. Reidpath of Syracuse. All of these men have won I.C.A.A.A.A. titles, and to my way of thinking they would be from seven to ten yards faster than any combination of runners in the past 25 years...
...Committee awarded a track "H" to H. R. Kobes '26 for running the two-mile relay against Yale in the B.A.A. meet on February 6. It also voted to authorize the opening of the Weld Boat House from 2 to 6 o'clock on Sundays for swimming and rowing in boats which do not require coxswains...